Question on Form - How many logged dives since certified?

[boulderjohn]

Well, that just goes to show you that we are all ultimately responsible for our own safety. The only time I have dived Maracaibo our max depth was 155' and it was straight down and straight up with a whole lot of deco obligation time on the ascent, but I hear that there are ways to dive it that are less advanced than that.

I have been to Maracaibo several times, and I have never been to 155 there.

 

[boulderjohn]

Generally when they see the black card come out and it's only got a 5 digit number on it, there's no questions other than when was your last dive

So you think the card you show matters?

Huh!

Lots of people seem to think otherwise.

 

[MarkA]

Generally when they see the black card come out and it's only got a 5 digit number on it, there's no questions other than when was your last dive

Is this black card from American Express? that says you are stinking rich?

 

[mcohen1021]

This one

 

[Island23]

No one, that I know, will verify 500 undocumented dives just because someone says, that they did. At that level, a person CPU dives, CAMS/VIDEOS, logs & is already cert.

 

[boulderjohn]

No one, that I know, will verify 500 undocumented dives just because someone says, that they did. At that level, a person CPU dives, CAMS/VIDEOS, logs & is already cert.

Could you possibly rephrase this? My reading comprehension isn't what it used to be.

 

[Pressurehead]

Generally when they see the black card come out and it's only got a 5 digit number on it, there's no questions other than when was your last dive

So you think the card you show matters?

Huh!

Lots of people seem to think otherwise.

I rang and booked a weeks diving the GBR in March, the questions asked were, "number of dive", gave a number, "last time you dived" I said last Wednesday, "deepest you have dived", I said 45M Open-Circuit ,no more questions except for the health waiver.
I have a few of those cards [with 5 digits and black] and I go out of my way to NOT wave them about, just show enough required for the trip.

Usual typos.

 

[ggunn]

I rang and booked a weeks diving the GBR in March, the questions asked were, "number of dive", gave a number, "last time you dived" I said last Wednesday, "deepest you have dived", I said 45M Open-Circuit ,no more questions except for the health waiver.

When I dive Cozumel I get the same three questions, but I only have an OW cert and I haven't kept a log book in 25 years. I estimate my number of dives, and I tell them how deep I have dived (155 feet and I don't plan on doing that again) and the approximate date of my last dive. Sign it and go diving.

 

[Pressurehead]

but I only have an OW cert and I haven't kept a log book in 25 years. I estimate my number of dives, and I tell them how deep I have dived (155 feet and I don't plan on doing that again)

In the past I was required to log ALL dives and have it signed for a lot of reasons [going to the next level ,promotion, and extra pay etc], old habit die hard so it is still done, logbook, computer and the Shearwater app on my phone to show my last dives [if requested, and it was on Lady Elliot Island last year], flash the phone and get the OK, e cards are handy also, but still carry a C card, phones die.